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Students in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program

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Students

Research interests

Megan Armstrong

Psychology and Law

Valarie Bell

 

Cami Brown

Risk taking behavior, decision-making, environmental
psychology, romantic relationships

Randal Brown

Sexual risk-taking behaviors, communication within intimate relationships, and issues of gender and sexual orientation.

Julie Chomos

Psychology and Law - Primarily interested in decision making processes

Jordan D. Clark

Jury Decision-Making, Social Cognition, Morality, Religion

Marisa Crowder

Cultural Psychology

Laura Davidson

K-12 education, cultural identification and its effect on
behavior, research methods, adolescent social and
academic development

Bret Davis

Physical Attraction, Relationship Initiation, Relationship Commitment, Sexual Attitudes, Gender Roles, and Attitude Function

Ada Diaconu-Muresan

Feminism & Aging, Feminism & Sexuality, Research Ethics

Michael J. Doane

Social Psychology of Religion, Religion and Well-being/Health, Secular Identities, and Close Relationships

Zebbedia G. Gibb

Attitude change, attitude transmission, continuation and effect of group norms on individual behavior/attitudes

Matt Ghiglieri

 

Kimberly Greenman

 

Michael Kwiatkowski

 

Barbara Larsen

Multi-method research approaches: The intersection of
qualitative and quantitative methods. Development of applied
research. Trauma, Terrorism, Genocide, Conflict Resolution,
Human Rights, Health and Justice

Sam Lindsey

Law, Religion, Agency and Determinism, Parenting

Jennifer Lowman

Sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, social
psychology of attitudes and decision making processes.

Val Lykes

gender roles and inequality, motivation and the psychology
of money and happiness, religion in a social psychology
context, romantic/interpersonal relationships, self-esteem,
and health psychology (in particular stress related studies).

Pete Martini

social psychology of education; political psychology; identity (race, gender, sexuality)

Aaron McVean

culture, inter-group relations, social cognition, social identity,
social inequality

Dara E. Naphan

Transition experiences from the U.S. military to civilian life for combat and non-combat veterans; U.S. attitudes toward veterans, U.S. military, and U.S. military conflicts; Gender differences in lifetime traumatic events, social support and suicidal behavior; The effects of social comparisons on levels of personal and collective self-esteem

Shane Moulton

Social cognition

Mark Nesbitt

 

Joshua Padilla

Social identity, attitude change

Lindsay Perez

 

Jenny Reichert

religion, moral panics, jury decision making

Janice Russell

Feminist psychology, vicim blame as it pertains to female
victims of sexual assault

Lorie Sicafuse

Psychology and Law, juvenile justice, gender, health psychology

Victoria Springer

Psychology and Law (organizational, systems), Justice (institutionalizing justice, private vs public justice), actual
focus TBA

Rebecca Thomas

Law, Deviance, Gender

Jose Vargas

social psychology and the law, social philosophy (especially the philosophy of science and philosophy of law) and culture. Specific interests include the role of media and children in the law, decision-making, social justice, cultural reproduction and ethics.

J.Guillermo Villalobos

Psychology and Law, Language and Framing Effects, Decision-Making, Social Inequality, Intergroup Relations.

Michael Williams

Educing Information (a.k.a. interrogation), Credibility
Assessment (a.k.a. deception/honesty detection),
Personality Assessment, Pedagogy of Improvisation.

Steve Wood

Psychology and Law (e.g. jury and juror decision making,
attorney performance, media violence, sexual
assault/aggression)

Logan Yelderman

 
   

 


 





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